EMF camp prides itself on it’s connectivity – but how do you connect hundreds of campers to high speed internet when even the phone signal is patchy? DavidC @emfNOC gave us a tour.
EMF Camp is a non-profit UK camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things: hackers, artists, geeks, crafters, scientists, and engineers. It happens every two years.
The music mentioning Raspberry Pi was (a commenter or two have pointed out) “Dual Core” – “All the Things”
This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.
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I wonder if they came back in 2020 to use it again…
Were you at CCCamp 2019? It's like EMD, but larger.
I find this stuff so interesting ha, could listen to this sorta stuff all day long for some reason.
new definition of shitty internet
I'm sorry, but that hat is just so bad.
Why do people who are camping need, or even want internet ?
Quite insightful. Thank you for the tour. Much appreciated 🙂 So much planning went into this under challenging conditions.
No-one outside British sanitary standards will be using those switches
Say 'Datenklo' one more time! I double dare you!
David you are a silent hero! We salute you!
This man is one sexy bear
It's a "shitty solution" which works very well 😉
Amazing video! Just loved it!
But: why?
#cablegore
This guys are network gods !
Im glad he stopped talking at the end of the end
Why would they not use a short 19" rack inside the datacenter? Throwing a bunch of networking gear on a folding table looks horrible.
That loo looked pretty functional if squinting in the dark. Switch looked like part of the seat, rest just like random fluff from previous users and random festivals posters on the sides. I'm sure some slightly pissed bloke could get it wrong.
A bummer if you really need to go…
Oh, wrong sort of field. Nevermind, still interesting :).
one month late
Wow that festival in the woods has better internet than my house in the city.
Datenklo or BitBog in english, where you can do you no doubt do a, wait forit. A data dump. Be interesting to see a miltary set up for non classified stuff in a field.
Hope he has his prescription SPF 9001 sunscreen on
Datenklo. The accent was so weird I did not understand it right away xD"
The cable management makes me super nervous in that data centre
If you want more detail about the network and other infrastructure at EMF, you can see the infrastructure review talk we gave at EMF2018 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJshUiM1q3U
Pride in the achievement – but no pride in the cable management! I love it!